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Show URGE SCHOOL PATRONS TO GET MONETARY AID Mrs. William 8. Hefferan of the National Na-tional Congress of Mothers. Chicago. III., and president of tbe department of school patrons. N K A. read a aura ma ry of the reports of state joint committees at the department meetlna In the Lafayette school this morn inn. Mrs, Hefferan expressed ex-pressed a belief the t t be most u rge n t problem faclna the educators of today Is the lack of revenue. She said that business busi-ness interests and the public at large expect ex-pect the echools to grow and develop with the rest of the country and Its Institutions, but without any proportional financial urjDort The report of the committee on school health waa read by Dr. Mary E. Bates of Denver. Colo. Other sneaker and su Meets discussed were: "The Responsibility of the Community Com-munity to the Rural School," by P. P. Claxton. United States commissioner of education, and "Citizen Co-Operation With the Schools," a general discussion by C. E. Beach, superintendent of dty schools for Olympia. Wash. ; William B Owen, principal Chicago normal school, at Chicago. Chi-cago. 111., and W. A. McKeever of the Kanaas state agricultural college, Manhattan, Man-hattan, Kan. |